Echoes

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Well done is better than well said.

Example is the best lesson there is.

My life is my message.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair.

Deeds, not words.

Men who have made these discoveries before us are not our masters, but our guides.

Go forth in virtue!

Whatever you are, be a good one.

He plants trees whose shade another age will enjoy.

The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Of a surety, at the Day of Judgment it will be demanded of us, not what we have read, but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and as it were to guide us.

All praise of virtue consists in action.

Learn about pines from the pine, and about bamboo from the bamboo.

I rely on two precedents: first, to similar cases our Sages applied the verse, "It is time to do something in honour of the Lord: for they have made void thy law"... Secondly, they have said, "Let all thy acts be guided by pure intentions." ...Lastly, when I have a difficult subject before me—when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools—I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.